He Said What?

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1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. 2 My Father’s house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going.” 

5 Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going, so how can we know the way?” 

6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.” 

8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.

9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you I do not speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. 11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the works themselves. 12 Very truly I tell you, all who have faith in me will do the works I have been doing, and they will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.

15 “If you love me, keep my commands. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever— 17 the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live, you also will live. 20 On that day you will realize that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. 21 Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. Anyone who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.”

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1 Six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. 2 Here a dinner was given in Jesus’ honor. Martha served, while Lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him. 3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on

Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. 

  4 But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief; as keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself to

what was put into it.

  7 “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “[It was intended] that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. 8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”

  9 Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead. 10 So the chief priests made plans to kill Lazarus as well, 11 for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and putting their faith in him.

  12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the Festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem.

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48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. 50 But here is the

bread that comes down from heaven, which people may eat and not die. 51 I am the living bread that came

down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for

the life of the world.”

52 Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

53 Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,

you have no life in you. 54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them

up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. 56 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks

my blood remains in me, and I in them. 57 Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so

the one who feeds on me will live because of me. 58 This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your

ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” 59 He said this while teach-

ing in the synagogue in Capernaum.

60 On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

61 Aware that his disciples were grumbling about this, Jesus said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 Then

what if you see the Son of Man ascend to where he was before! 63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh counts for

nothing. The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life. 64 Yet there are some of you

who do not believe.” For Jesus had known from the beginning which of them did not believe and who

would betray him. 65 He went on to say, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father

has enabled them.”

66 From this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him.

67 “You do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve.

68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We have

come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God.”

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1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children

of God— 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of

God.

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3:1 Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. 2 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.”

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God without being born again. ”

4 “How can anyone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second

time into their mother’s womb to be born!” 

5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water

and the Spirit. 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at

my saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you can-

not tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.

10 “You are Israel’s teacher,” said Jesus, “and do you not understand these things? 11 Very truly I tell you,

we speak of what we know, and we testify to what we have seen, but still you people do not accept our tes-

timony. 12 I have spoken to you of earthly things and you do not believe; how then will you believe if I speak

of heavenly things? 13 No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven—the Son of

Man. 14 Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, 15 that eve-

ryone who believes may have eternal life in him.”